Shade-bracket.



T., GRESS da B. MOLINE.

SHADE BRACKET.'

PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP 3.

UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.y

THEODORE GRESS AND BENNIE MOLINE, OF COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA.

SHADE-BRACKET.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that we, THEoDoRE Gauss and BENNIE MOLINE, citizens of the United States, residing at Council Bluffs, in the county of Pottawattamie and State of Iowa, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shade-Brackets of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shade supporting brackets and the principal object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which may beadjusted for the accommodation of shades of different lengths and which may be reversed for a similar purpose, the construction being such that an extremely simple and inexpensive device is produced.

Another object of the invention is to so construct the bracket that a single retaining element canbe utilized to hold the bracket upon the yframe and wherein the bracket is so constructed that itcoacts with the retaining device to maintain itself in adjusted position.

Further objects of the vinvention will appear as the following description is read in connection with the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this application, and in which Figure l is a detail elevation of a portion of a window frame showing in full lines the bracket in one position and in dotted lines the bracket in its reversed position. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on an enlarged scale through the bracket taken approximately on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the brackets. Fig. et is an end view showing a modified form.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, l represents a bracket arm which is connected or integrally formed upon the body 2 and extends in a plane at right angles to the body and diagonally from. a vertical plane through the body so that when in one position its outer free end will be raised above the body and in the opposite position will be arranged below t-he body.v

The body 2 is provided with a longitudinal rib 3 pressed up from the rearside thereof and provided with a longitudinal slot a to receive the fastening device 5. The sides beyond the rib are extended on widely diverging lines so that only their side edges contact with the window frame and as the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 3, 1913.

Patented Oct. 27, 1914:.

serial No. 804,549.

body is resilient when the fastening device 4l is screwed down into the frame the sides and portions of the rib on opposite sides of the slot will be expanded or spread apart and their inherent resiliency will tend to make a tight engagement with the head of the fastening device, thereby insuring fixed adjustment of the bracket.

In order to prevent rotation of the bracket with the fastening device acting as a pivot therefor the body may have its corners turned down into penetrating tangs or prongs 6 but these tangs or prongs may be omitted, as it has been found in practice that the resiliency of the body is sufficient to not only hold the bracket in adjusted position but to prevent its rotation upon the fastening device. When the fastening device is released or unscrewed partially from the frame the bracket may be adjusted back and forth or reversed, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, thus giving double the range of adjustment.

What is claimed is l. A shade bracket comprising a body of resilient material having a raised longitudinal rib pressed therein, said rib being slotted, a fastening device passing through the slot and arranged to flatten said rib and expend the sides of the body whereby the body will be held in adjusted position upon a support and a bracket arm on the body.

2. -A shade bracket consisting of integral right angularly positioned members, one member being slotted to receive the shade, the other member having a raised longitudinal rib and widely diverging iianges upon opposite sides of the rib, a fastening device passing through the rib and arranged to flatten said rib and to aline the flanges upon opposite sides thereof, the inherent resiliency of the flanges and ribs coacting with the fastening device to hold the flanges in position upon the support, said bracket being reversibly mounted in said fastening device.

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

THEODORE GRESS. BENNIE MOLINE.

Witnesses:

REED A. FLICKINGER. INsLnE M. FLICKINGER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

